More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
  2. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
  3. Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's…
  4. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
  5. When a man stops to ponder his physical or moral condition, he generally finds he is ill.
  6. What one knows, one sees.
  7. We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the mos…
  8. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

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